Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 15:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 60–60. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man wearing a white cap and dark coat, leaning forward visible
- Max (named at t:15:24): unseen, referenced in dialogue as 'Max' mentioned
- Johnny (named at t:15:24): unseen, referenced as 'Johnny' mentioned
- Mike (named at t:15:47): unseen, referenced as 'Mike' mentioned
- Old Tom Tom (named at t:15:38): unseen, referenced as 'Old Tom Tom' mentioned
- Seen happening
- A man in a white cap leans forward in a doorway. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Old devil nice guy. Old Tom Tom done stole our Johnny away. Don't you wish you were young enough to feel the way that kid feels?” 15:38 · “I threw my breath on it.” 16:00
- Seen
- white cap [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], doorway [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious and slightly humorous; themes: colonialism, cultural assimilation, humor through absurdity; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, high contrast lighting, static framing
A man in a white cap and dark coat leans forward in a dim interior, possibly a doorway. Dialogue references Johnny going native and a plant shriveling after someone blew on it.
“It's funny, Max, that the tropics will do what she'd like, Johnny.” 15:24 · “He's going native.” 15:36 automatic transcript, may be wrong
The record
No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.
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